[226] Pachym. ii. pp. 182-89. When Cosmas was appointed patriarch a curious incident occurred. A monk of the monastery of the Pantepoptes protested against the nomination, because it had been revealed to him that the person who should fill the vacant office would bear the name John. Such was the impression made by this prediction that matters were so arranged that somehow Cosmas was able to claim that name also. Whereupon the monk went on to predict how many years Cosmas would hold office, and that he would lose that position before his death. [227] Pachym. ii. pp. 271-77. [228] _Ibid._ pp. 278-84. [229] Pachym. ii. pp. 292-98. [230] Pachym. ii. pp. 298-300. [231] _Ibid._ ii. p. 303. [232] _Ibid._ pp. 341-43. [233] _Ibid._ 347-85. [234] Cantacuzene, ii. pp. 442-48; Niceph. Greg. pp. 701, 710, 726. [235] Ducas, pp. 117-21, 134, 139-42, 148-52, 176. [236] _Historia politica_, p. 16. [237] Phrantzes, p. 307. [238] See Gerlach's description in _Turcograecia_, pp. 189-90. [239] Breüning, _Orientalische Reyss_, p. 68, 'zur rechten an der Mauren Imp. Alexii Comneni monumentum von Steinwerck auffs einfältigste and schlechteste.' [240] Salomon Schweigger, _Ein newe Reyssbeschreibung auss Deutschland nach Constantinopel_ pp. 119-20, Chaplain for more than three years in Constantinople, at the Legation of the Holy Roman Empire, 1581. He gives the inscription on the sarcophagus: [Greek: Alexios autokratôr tôn Rhômaiôn]. There is an eagle to the right of the legend. [241] P. 12, [Greek: eis hên ekeinos edeimato Christô tô philanthrôpô monên]. [242] _Turcograecia_, p. 46, where the tomb is further described; 'est id lapideum, non insistens 4 basibus, sed integro lapide a terra surgens, altius quam mensa, ad parietem templi.' [243] _Turcograecia_, p. 189. [244] Patr. Constantius, p. 72. [245] _Historia politica_, p. 178. [246] A barrel vault is, however, used under the west gallery of S. Theodosia though cross-groined vaults are used in the side 'aisles.' [247] _Manuel d'art byzantin_, p. 742. [248] The bands of marble on which the inscription is found were cut from marble slabs which once formed part of a balustrade, for the upper side of the bands is covered with carved work. [249] _Carmina Philae_, i. pp. 115-16, lines 4, 7. [250] _Ibid._ Heading to poem, and lines 10, 13-16. Second epitaph p. 117, lines 2, 5, 14. [251] _Turcograecia_, pp. 16, 109, [Greek: endon tês mikras ekklêsias kai hôraias tou parekklêsion]. [252] [Greek: tethammene] (Cod. Mon. fol. 102). [253] Alludes to the retirement of Glabas from the world as a monk. [254] Her name as a nun. [255] In the superscription to this epigram in the Florentine and Munich MSS. the name [Greek: Glabas] is given. [256] In these translations I have been assisted chiefly by Sir W. M. Ramsay, Professor Bury, and Mr. E. M. Antoniadi. CHAPTER VIII CHURCH OF S. THEODOSIA, GUL JAMISSI